1. Introduction: From Private Eye to Police Procedural – The Logic of Contemporary Crime Fiction - Peter Messent
2. Criminal Suits: Style and Surveillance, Strategy and Tactics in Elmore Leonard - Barry Taylor
3. Black Noir: Race and Urban Space in Walter Mosley's Detective Fiction - Liam Kennedy
4. V. I. Warshawski, Kinsey Millhone and Kay Scarpetta: The Creation of a Feminist Detective Hero - Sabine Vanacker
5. The Lesbian Thriller: Transgressive Investigations - Paulina Palmer
6. Policing the Margins: Barbara Wilson's Gaudi Afternoon and Troubles in Transylvania - Christopher Gair
7. Reading the Signs: Detection and Anthropology in the Work of Tony Hillerman - David Murray
8. The Last Good Place; James Crumley, the West and the Detective Novel - John Harvey
9. James Ellroy, Los Angeles and the Spectacular Crisis of Masculinity - Josh Cohen
10. Law Crimes: The Legal Fictions of John Grisham and Scott Turow - Nick Heffernan
11. Watching the Detectives: Body Images, Sexual Politics and Ideology in Contemporary Crime Film - Brian Jarvis--Selected
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Notes on Contributors
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